Hi Flor,
That's strange because I have had it set now for a while and even
though I
have performed various clean-ups including deleting cache and other
temp
folders it has still held its setting of "OFF".
Paul.
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Sent: 29 August 2011 01:52
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Subject: [vip_students] Re: Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
Paul,
Although it is useful to save the setting as you outline, this
setting
isn't permanently saved. (If, say, you do a disk Cleanup or you
delete
your Internet cache, then you are once again restored to the default
Google Instant on value the next time you open Google. I turned
Google
Instant off, which was good for a few weeks until I did a disk
Cleanup,
etc.
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From: "(NCBI) Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:33 PM
Subject: [vip_students] Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
For anyone lately who uses screen readers like Jaws, Supernova, NVDA
and
even Magnification and who use these types of technologies in
conjunction
with Google's excellent web search page may have noticed that for
whatever
reason the stability and refinement of the Google search page
interface
isn't what it used to be. I noticed this quite a bit lately and have
taken
some steps to determine what might be done to help improve it and
somehow
bring it back to a more traditional screen once more. After some
research on
this I found out that Google was using a relatively new feature
called,
"Google Instant". The purpose of this little feature is to do the
following;
* Predictions and results appear while typing.
So as soon as you begin typing in your various search words, Google
sets
about gathering anything relative to the words and to my annoyance
caused
disruption to my search. I just felt that the page wasn't reading
correctly
and that my screen reader wasn't as accurate as it used to be. Well
I
have
now resolved this behaviour and below in a short tutorial are the
steps to
do it.
Note: This tutorial is not screen reader specific, anyone can use
it.
If you
do not feel confident about making the below settings changes then
you
can
always get a friend, family member or your I.T trainer to carry out
the
below changes.
(Turning Off Google Instant)
1. Open up a Google search page as normal.
2. Move to the top of the page with keys, "Control + Home keys" on
your
keyboard.
3. Press the down arrow about 18 lines and you should be now on a
link
which
says, "Options link". Press the enter key on this and wait a few
moments for
the next page to load up.
4. When the next page as loaded up, again press the keys, "control +
home"
to move to the top of the page and now press the "Tab key" till you
come to
a link that says, "Search settings" and press enter key. Wait a few
moments
for the page to load.
5.The page that should now have loaded up is called the "Google
Preferences
Page" and here we are going to look for a heading called "Google
Instant".
Notes: Remember headings are parts of a web page which help break
up
that
page into individual components or sections. Under each heading
title
will
be in this case settings relative to that particular heading title
so
here
when we locate the Google Instant heading we will be just above the
settings
we need to change. To jump to the Google instant heading, press the
letter
"H" till you hear your screen reader speak the heading title of
"Google
Instant".
6. Once on the Google Instant section, press the down arrow till you
reach
"Two Radio buttons" which will be labelled as follows;
*. Radio Button checked, use Google instant.
*. Radio Button not checked Don't use Google instant.
Notes: The arrow keys will move between these buttons for those
using
the
keyboard, mouse users can simply click on their choice.
7. Keyboard users, arrow down to the radio button that says, Do not
use
Google instant" and here press the spacebar to make it checked.
8. Once you have checked the appropriate radio button, the next
thing
is to
"Save" the settings, to do this just press the letter "B" for button
if you
use the keyboard and it should jump you onto the "Save Button" or if
it
doesn't then just use the tab key to move onto it, takes a bit
longer
to
reach but is just the same. When you reach the Save button, press
the
key,
"spacebar" to complete the job.
9. You may get a notification message that your settings have been
saved,
just press the spacebar or enter key on the "OK" button and to
complete.
At this point you're done, I suggest you close out of the Google
pages
and
then re-enter the normal Google search page once more. You should
find
a big
difference in working with the Google interface which now should act
more
like it used to in the past.
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